The Early Cold War, 1945 - 1950 (Chapter 5)

The start of the Cold War

Pearl Harbor
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VqQAf74fsE (Text here: The infamy speech)

Homework:

1. Read page 228 – 235.

Use the internet and the textbook to find the answers for the tasks below:

2. In your notebook write a definition for:

• The Cold War
• Communism
• Capitalism

3. Use the internet or your textbook to find the dates of these events. (Months will suffice, although with some events you will have to specify "early" or "late") Create a timeline in your workbook, entitled: "Events of 1945"

• Japan surrenders
• Death of F D Roosevelt
• Normandy invasion (D-Day)
• Yalta conference
• Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombed
• Hitler commits suicide.
• Potsdam conference

4. Answer questions 2, 4 and 5 on page 234

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End of Chapter 5 revision:
A fun game, you should be able to answer most of these questions:
http://www.schoolhistory.co.uk/ks4/coldwar/engarde_coldwar.shtml

More games and quizzes, some of the questions are about topics we are going to study later in the term, so doing these games will be beneficial anyway:
http://www.schoolhistory.co.uk/revision/superpower.shtml

Key terms and concepts:

Ideology Truman doctrine Marshall plan Arms race Berlin airlift

Communism Capitalism Yalta Potsdam Atomic Bomb

Truman Churchill Stalin Fulton, Missouri Iron curtain

You need to know the who, what and where of these words.

Cold War, good links:

• http://www.sparknotes.com/history/american/coldwar/summary.html
• http://www.schoolhistory.co.uk/revision/superpower.shtml
• http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/coldwar.htm
• http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/coldwar/

Quiz:

• http://www.quia.com/rr/474656.html
• http://www.quia.com/rr/341416.html